MARRIAGE = 1 MAN + 1 WOMAN?

MARRIAGE = 1 MAN + 1 WOMAN?

for a while, i was questioning God why i should stand up in defence of the current definition of marriage. i reasoned that our christian standards shouldn’t be expected of people who are not christians. but God showed me in my quiet time last week that it’s not about rights. it’s about love. if we really love these people, we wouldn’t let them settle for less than God’s best. ‘cuz in reality, people who find satisfaction in same-sex relationships are really selling themselves short of real love – which is as God designed it to be.

i remember at Urbana 2000, Pastor Ken Fong told us that the measurement of when a couple is ready to have children is whether there is an overflow of love between them. the reason why God created us is that He was so full of love that He wanted to share it with someone. so love, in its fullness, ultimately gives. in a relationship between a man and a woman, this design of love can be acheived naturally.

it’s true that because we live in a fallen world, children are born and raised in families that fall very short of this ideal and that some relationships between two men or two women may seem more genuine than some husbands and wives’. but in the end, it really is for our benefit if we live by God’s design.

so this same-sex marriage issue is like anything else in life that deceives us into exchanging our good for God’s best.